"Books are embalmed minds." — Christian Nestell Bovee

"Books are embalmed minds."

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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180 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the…
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in…
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other…
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

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